Gone But Not Forgotten

November 5, 2009

Victims, relatives to witness sniper execution

Filed under: Execution — GBNF @ 12:10 pm

By DENA POTTER
Associated Press Writer

RICHMOND, Va. – Some ache for revenge, others simply for justice. There is frustration, too, and defiance.

For those wounded by the D.C. snipers and for the relatives of those killed, the emotions leading up to the execution of the mastermind behind the 2002 attacks vary as widely as those who found themselves in the cross hairs.

John Allen Muhammad, 48, is set to die by injection in a Virginia prison Nov. 10, seven years after he and his teenage accomplice terrorized the area in and around the nation’s capital for three weeks.

Some family members can’t wait to see Muhammad take his final breath. Others plan to make the trip to Virginia but never step foot on prison grounds.

And there are those who plan to spend the night at home with their families, satisfied that Muhammad is paying for what he’s done but indifferent as to how it will happen.

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